Donald Trump is not fit to tie John McCain’s Navy boots

Just when you thought Donald Trump could not slither any lower after attacking immigrants he sneaks into a different swamp.

This time he attacked Senator John McCain, apparently for getting captured in Vietnam. Trump proclaimed McCain was not a hero after surviving five and a half years of torture.

“He’s not a war hero,” Trump said. “He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.”

Huh?

And where was Trump during the Vietnam War? We certainly know he wasn’t captured.

He was busy getting an exemption for his clubbed foot or a bone spur on his ankle, or maybe he cut his finger knitting or some such evasion.

In other words a draft dodger.

I know John McCain from interviewing him and dealing with him directly on the immigration issue. He is a bona fide hero and a proud Scots Irishman who loves his roots. He was the first Republican to show an interest at presidential campaign level appearing at an Irish presidential forum in 2008, in Scranton.

Then there is the war hero – the wounds that he suffered being captured and then tortured in the notorious Hanoi Hilton were beyond savagery and cruelty – it was downright sadistic. He refuses to discuss it.

He came through it like a hero and has been one ever since.

Last week he was one of the very few to take issue with Trump on immigrants from Mexico and whether they are all rapists and criminals.

He feels the immigrant dilemma deeply having seen the dead bodies in the Arizona desert of women and children desperately seeking a new life as he told us when we met him.